Uyuni... I still can't pronounce it

We arrived in Uyuni two days ago after a long journey with bus, taxi and mini bus. I had expected some sort of tourist village, but in fact, it's a real Bolivian town with 30,000 inhabitants, so 500 tourists on any given day is not so much.

Yesterday was planned for acclimatisation, and boy did Flo, Lennox, and Oscar need it, since they all had altitude sickness, Oscar literally, and Lennox and Flo migraine/ hangover type headaches.
The rest of us were hit by
tiredness and being quickly out of breath.

Today is also to acclimatise, since 3600m and more is quite tough. For example, blood oxygen levels drop, and so the heart goes faster to try to compensate.

So we do only two low energy things today.

First in the morning we visit the local market. It's not to dissimilar from those we saw in Africa and Asia, but it is both cleaner and less busy. All but one of the stallholders is female, even the butchers, and they dress very traditionally with skirts and hats.

The kids enjoyed buying fruit, veg, pasta, and more, whilst one older female butcher wanted to sell me a leg of llama for about $3 per kilo. When it seemed I wasn't buying llama, she offered all manner of other meats.

Secondly, late in the afternoon, we made a small outing to the train cemetery. There are about 30 abandoned steam trains there, which were ideal for the kids to play on and for us all to play hide and seek. Normally, we would have walked there and back, but today, to be cautious, we took a taxi the 2.5km there and backRead more